Seen Around Last Weekend's Regional Shows

The fall trade show season continued last weekend with events hosted by the New England, Great Lakes, and New Atlantic booksellers associations. Each featured an array of engaging educational programming, special authors events, and plenty of networking opportunities. ABA staff was on hand at each to meet with booksellers and to share innovative and timely education sessions on such topics as e-books, ABA IndieCommerce, and social media. Above the Treeline staff was also at the three shows to present demos of Edelweiss, the new free interactive catalogs system for stores and their publisher reps.

Watch for a wrap-up of the fall trade show season in BTW at the end of October ... but, for now, here's a glimpse of some of the people, and fun, at last weekend's shows.

ABA Board member Beth Puffer of New York City's Bank Street Bookstore and Suzanna Hermans of Oblong Books & Music in Rhinebeck, New York, who sports a custom-made IndieBound T-shirt, at the New Atlantic Independent Bookseller Association trade show at the Sheraton City Center in Baltimore, Maryland.

Chris Morrow of Northshire Bookstore in Manchester, Vermont; ABA CEO Oren Teicher, and Wendy Hudson of Nantucket Bookworks in Nantucket, Massachusetts, at the New England Independent Booksellers Association trade show at the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford, Connecticut.

Garth Stein (The Art of Racing in the Rain, Harper) snaps a photo of the banquet audience at the Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association trade show at the Renaissance Cleveland Hotel in Cleveland, Ohio.

GLIBA's winning Quiz Bowl team, "The Six Pistols": front - Carl Lennertz, HarperCollins vice president for independent retailing; Bridget Piekarz, Random House sales rep; Len Vlahos, ABA COO; back - Eileen Becker, Random House Sales rep; ABA Vice President Becky Anderson of Anderson's Bookshops in Naperville, Illinois; and Melanie Benjamin, author of Alice I Have Been (Delacorte).